Protecting freedom on campus and off
Gender Neutral Housing:
- Will present to Senate tonight and receive comments/feedback
- Waiting on the proposal to come back from DOS with changes
- Determine whether or not the proposal will need Board of Trustees approval
- Have Senate vote on it next week
- Statements of support from other clubs, RAs, etc
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– February 21, 2012
Introductions
Follow-ups from last week:
Aidan sent out a Google Doc with a letter about technology/privacy panel discussion. We will edit via Google Docs.
Possible dates: Beginning of March, to give appropriate planning time for speakers.
LEAP: End of March, any time after Spring Break
Death penalty: Have Gloria Killian come back and speak?
Motion to adjourn
Adjournment
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– January 31, 2012
Introductions
Updates from Miles:
GN Housing – Meeting on Friday
Death Penalty Petition – need 50,000 more signatures. Work with Democrats of the CCs.
Panel discussion on technology & privacy – Aidan will write up paragraph on what we want, send it to relevant bodies. SOPA, Megaupload? Facebook and timeline.
Speaker from LEAP
Figure out dates at the next meeting.
Do we want to do a follow-up on the Frary Dining Hall issue?
Motion to adjourn
Adjournment
Addendum: Miles spoke with Shane from the ACLU of Southern California. He will send us information on a training session on the 29th.
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– January 24, 2012
Glenn Greenwald, the popular civil liberties-oriented political commentator at Salon, gave a talk at CMC on November 4th. Greenwald’s new book is With Liberty and Justice for All. The topic of the book and of Greenwald’s talk at the Athenaeum is the two-tiered justice system in the United States whereby powerful “elites” like bankers and politicians are immune from prosecution for torture, wiretapping and foreclosure fraud, while millions of ordinary Americans — the highest rate of per capita imprisonment anywhere in the world — face long jail terms for minor offenses.
Greenwald’s talk was cosponsored by the ACLU of the Claremont Colleges.
ACLU-CC Director Miles Lifson CMC '13, second from left, and Deputy Director Jeremy B. Merrill CMC '12, first from right, eat lunch with Glenn Greenwald prior to his talk at CMC's Athenaeum. (Courtesy MadhouseMuse)
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– November 10, 2011
Conference call with Cheyne Castroni of SoCal ACLU
California Death Penalty Initiative
Prison realignment bill?
Death penalty ballot initiative to replace it with life without possibility of parole: February 24th.
$300mil/execution
CA budget shortfall of $25billion
Movie to show, potentially at the Motley. Would have to be at the end of November as to not to interfere with finals.
Outreach. Collaborating with other groups: 5C criminal justice network
1500 signatures… and must be registered as CA voters, so we’ll probably only get a few hundred.
Tabling in February?
Jeremy will call James Clark
Contact: ccastroni@aclu-sc.org
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– November 10, 2011
Glenn Greenwald will be at the Ath this Friday.
Gender neutral housing: Dean Eric will get a political analysis from Dean Castro.
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– November 3, 2011
October 20, 2011
Introductions
Gender neutral housing update: Need to finalize a proposal to put forth to the Board of Trustees, Gender neutral bathrooms? Passability? Garner statements of support?
Regular meeting time: Wednesdays at 9pm in TBA (but probably BC 22)
Glenn Greenwald will be at the Ath on Nov. 4 for lunch.
Know your rights: negotiating a reasonable fee, have SoCal ACLU come instead and give a presentation? Aidan will contact Miguel Cruz.
Facebook privacy: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) or panel? Jeremy will contact James Stewart from the ACLU. Professor from 5C?
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– October 21, 2011
ACLU MINUTES
October 12, 2011
Introductions
Past events
Death Penalty Training
FIRE
GOTCHA policy open letter
Gender Neutral Housing
Goal is for proposal to be presented by Dean Vos at the Board of Trustees meeting in December. Considering expansions to the proposal.
Glenn Greenwald
Ideas for events this year
Glenn Greenwald
Know your rights
Facebook and other internet privacy: bring a speaker to campus? From ACLU SoCal
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– October 14, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACLU of the Claremont Colleges Response to the Claremont Independent’s piece “The Debate Over Civil Liberties”
April 6, 2011 – The ACLU of the Claremont Colleges (ACLU-CC) is disappointed that we were neither consulted in advance nor asked for comment regarding the Claremont Independent’s piece “The Debate Over Civil Liberties.” The article fundamentally misrepresents our stance regarding gender neutrality.
The ACLU of the Claremont Colleges is currently engaged in a push for the creation of a gender neutral housing option at Claremont McKenna College. Pomona, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer Colleges, already have such policies. The ACLU-CC believes that such a policy would allow CMC students greater freedom to make their own decisions regarding their preferred roommate.
The ACLU of the Claremont Colleges works to protect the civil liberties of all people regardless of political affiliation. On issues such as the death penalty and LGBTQ rights, our focus on advancing freedoms naturally aligns us with progressive groups. However, we remain a nonpartisan organization. Indeed, our largest event this year was bringing Foundation for Individual Rights in Education President Greg Lukianoff to the Athenaeum to speak about ending campus speech codes, a cause celebrated by the editorial board of the Claremont Independent.
The ACLU-CC is dedicated to the protection of civil liberties. We find this mischaracterization of our positions to be counterproductive towards establishing a campus dialogue on civil liberties.
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About ACLU-CC:
The ACLU of The Claremont Colleges, founded in 2010, is a five-college campus organization devoted to protecting civil liberties on-campus and off. It holds regular meetings on Monday evenings at 9:00 PM in Bauer Center 36, CMC Campus, open to the entire Claremont Colleges community. For more information, visit http://aclu-cc.org.
Contact:
Jonathan Rice
Communications Director, ACLU-CC
info@aclu-cc.org
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– April 15, 2011
